The terrific two’s covers the following concepts throughout the school year:

Social Development

• Begins to alleviate separation anxiety
• Begins to interact with other children in individual and cooperative play
• Recognizes other children
• Shares toys
• Learns to put toys away
• Is able to transition between activities
• Can follow one-step directions (lining up for activities, waiting one’s turn)
• Begins to participate in group activities (circle time, songs, stories)
• Able to sit on carpet squares, keep hands to oneself, focus on teacher

Language Skills and Reading Readiness

• Speaks clearly
• Understands and responds to one’s own name
• Recognizes first letter of name
• Introduced to rhyming words

Visual Skills and Math Readiness

• Introduced to colors
• Introduced to shapes, patterns
• Introduced to numbers 1-10

Fine Motor Skills

• Introduced to scissors, cutting
• Introduced to painting, coloring, gluing, finger painting and finger play

Gross Motor Skills

• Practices hoping, jumping, running, dancing, circling, and clapping

Behavioral Development

• Maintains self control
• Begins to understand self and basic body parts